LONDON, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- British Health Secretary Matt Hancock on Wednesday announced that more areas of the East and South East of England will be put into Tier four restrictions, the highest level, while revealing that two cases of another new variant of the novel coronavirus have been identified in Britain.
To curb the spread of COVID-19, Sussex, Oxfordshire, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, parts of Essex that are not currently in the tightest restrictions, Waverley in Surrey and Hampshire will all enter Tier Four from Boxing Day, Hancock said at a virtual press conference at Downing Street.
